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Wasting Time

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Date: Feb 01 2013

Themes: Time

Intro

In order to waste money, you have to choose to spend it on something foolish. Time, however, passes whether you’re doing something useful with it or not.

Wasting time isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can be fun to peruse the internet or see what’s on TV. Everyone needs to relax sometimes. When you wish you were being productive, though, wasting time is frustrating.

Vocab

productive adj.

Definition

Example James is a very productive worker. He always gets his jobs done on time.

peruse v.

Definition

Example Do you mind if I peruse your books? I'm looking for something new to read.

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Discussion

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How do you waste time? How does it make you feel? Do you wish you wasted less time?

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toya0831

China

The only way of me to wast time is sleep. I do think it’s the best way to wast time and relax.

Erise

Poland

Well, what’s exactly “wasting time”? Opinions differ.There are so many provoking ideas about this term but most agree that time spent on something with pleasure was not wasted.

Everything matters, every single day and hour; it’s not wasted.

laptop786

India

waste time or free time has one saving grace is that u can watch your fr8 movies.there are many more ways to reduce waste time like reading books,do exersice or hang out with ur friends but watching movies is big one for me!!!!

Olivine

Indonesia

do the things we like is not a wasting time, we enjoy it.

do the things we do not like is not a wasting time either if we get benefits and able to learn something by doing so.

however sleeping and space out too much is a waste of time.

vicmay_lo-flo@live.com.mx

Mexico

They could lose thousands of ways.

that at the beginning you can be nice, but … all the time you lose.. never returns.!!!!

mjsymbol

United States

There is something quite annoying about these english lessons. Can’t there be a notification that lets you know the level that is requiered to understand this lesson?

I beg you

Sajjad Monti

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I think it’s not wasting time, It’s just free time! :)

I like to read newspapers and magazines in my free time, Like Machine Mag, a very famous magazine about cars in Iran, I like it so much!

Gentleman in Ebaby

Saudi Arabia

hey Seiyf

how r u doing there ? a long time we didn’t talk ???

AppleRome

Antarctica

I dont agree with your perception about your “wasting time” habit, peeps ^^.. It sounds like you did crime and then reflected it with fear.

Wasting time 2-3 hours around is completely okay. What do you expect when you live in busy 21th century with so many interesting things around and so many things to achieve? I see wasting time as a happy exit to me. And Sunday is really “holy day”.

The more important issue than this: People have less-time for each other nowadays. Even they prefer to go wasting time alone.

MimKun

Yemen

I visit the gym in my free time & play video games !

maliesfand

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

hi my name is maliheh i live in iran plz add me into your list and speake with me

i born 24 feb 1990

Tracy_green

China

I‘d like to say people are either too busy or too idle nowadays. I think we should live in a balanced life. Never go to extremes.

yuminaga

China

We are human being so we can get sick of doing same thing for a long time even its the very impotant thing we havto cope with .having a moment to take a break can balance when we start to feel bad about ourself. peruse internet , watch Tv shows ,movies ,amble arong house ,anything like space out .it can be good for us .a friend of mind is kind of productive ,she play game with iPhone occasionally to take a break. for me I always like to be doing something perfect ,but I dont have a lot of enengy a lot of time ,thats when I find myself geting sucked in to that trap such as I could get frutrated with myself when something i do is not perfect .Wow its really horrible, i feel like i could be killed by myself .I dont like to waste time but waiteting time is neccesarilly a bad thing,i have realized recently .life is glorious , have fun with it ,be happy everyda ,everytime!

chaumy

Viet Nam

I allways be crazy with the karoke programs of Apple. I spend most of my free time to doing some cover songs for fun. Probably, it is a boring liking with some people, but it is so much intereting for me. I usually cover some famous English songs. You might tell I am wasting my time for a kid game, but it is not. When i record my voice, I can heard what makes different between my English pronunciation with other one. I can fix my mistakes little by little through my singing.

J.milk

Brazil

This dialogue is about me.

Defang

France

I waste so much time doing nothing but hanging out on the internet, reading dumb websites like 9gag, Facebook.. It’s truly uninteresting but just a funny way to do nothing, time really flies when I do that, it’s a bad thing I guess…

At least I learn english with those fooleries. :)

DAMAVAND

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

If you do anything without any enjoyment, you actually waste your time,however it’s your job or you want to make money more!!

Ya Nina

Kazakhstan

I’m sure that all of us have to time for relaxing, spacing out. It can be anything at all. We have to sit around in our uneasy, heavy life. We hurried to manage with all our responsibilities, cares, private matters every day, every hour, every minute… Therefore it is very important that we have time to to stop and to think of our life: for what I live, how I live and where I hurry?

haitham4vip

Egypt

u have to find many things to cover this point

kareem_10

Egypt

From my point of view, using computer and cell phones is a big waste of time..I know that they ‘re sometimes useful but most of the time spent sitting on them goes in vain..and they say that modern technology was ment to save our time!!!